Download or read book Beyond Envy written by Sally Fiorenza and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-19 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eddie Fiorenza suffered second and third degree burns over ninety percent of his body. The Doctors said he would never live, but with God, his Mother and Girlfriend by his side Eddie was given a second chance.

Download or read book Beyond Envy written by Willow R. and published by Xspurts.com. This book was released on 2024-03-12 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Experience an enlightening journey with "Beyond Envy: An Essential Guide to Overcoming Jealousy," a comprehensive and enlightening book that helps you understand, harness, and ultimately overcome the powerful emotions of jealousy and envy.This incredible book starts by making you understand the definition and differences between jealousy and envy, as well as their common causes and psychological aspects. It thoroughly discusses the physical, emotional, and social impact of these emotions, prompting you to recognize the urgency in dealing with them effectively."Beyond Envy" offers a unique scientific yet empathetic approach, adopting self-analysis and acceptance strategies. Learn to recognize your feelings, identify triggers, and embrace your individual imperfections. This guide persuades you to approve of yourself and set healthy boundaries, distancing you from toxic relationships and building constructive communications.The book underscores cultivating self-love through gratitude practice and acts of kindness towards oneself. With the beautifully laid out chapters on boosting self-confidence and developing emotional intelligence, you will dive into the process of building trust in yourself, navigating emotions, and cultivating empathy."Beyond Envy" arms you with practical strategies to overcome jealousy and envy. Let visualization, positive affirmations, and transforming jealousy into a motivational tool work wonders in your journey to becoming a better version of yourself. Strengthen your communication skills and explore the therapeutic benefits of mindfulness through mindful living and techniques to stay present.The book also extends its guidance to help you build healthy relationships based on trust and openness while effectively dealing with jealousy within them. It further navigates the tricky terrain of overcoming envy at the workplace and fostering a healthier working environment. This book is a treasure trove of success stories, real-life experiences, inspirational quotes, and lessons from those who have won against jealousy and envy. Not stopping there, "Beyond Envy" ensures that you embark on a continuous journey, offering long-term strategies for overcoming jealousy and envy, thus ensuring your personal growth and self-fulfillment."Beyond Envy: An Essential Guide to Overcoming Jealousy" isn't just a read; it's an emotional detox, a self-improvement guide, and a life-altering experience. This book will guide readers down the path towards a fulfilling and envy-free life. Transform your life today – there's no need to wait!

Download or read book Race Ethnicity and Migration in Modern Japan Indigenous and colonial others written by Michael Weiner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Night written by Colleen Gleason and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Dark, sexy, and captivating, Beyond the Night mixes intense romance with white-knuckle action.” —New York Times bestselling author Jeaniene Frost Joss Ware is an author to be seriously reckoned with in the popular realm of paranormal romance—a must-read for fans of Suzanne Brockmann, Alyssa Day, Lara Adrien, and J.R. Ward. Her electrifying debut, Beyond the Night, begins a remarkable series that transports readers to a time fifty years after the end of the world—and follows a small band of exceptional men and the extraordinary women who join them in their desperate struggle for survival. A stunning combination of non-stop adventure and sizzling passion, Beyond the Night is high-concept romance that will literally take your breath away.

Download or read book Lists and Catalogues in Ancient Literature and Beyond written by Rebecca Laemmle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists and catalogues have been en vogue in philosophy, cultural, media and literary studies for more than a decade. These explorations of enumerative modes, however, have not yet had the impact on classical scholarship that they deserve. While they routinely take (a limited set of) ancient models as their starting point, there is no comparably comprehensive study that focuses on antiquity; conversely, studies on lists and catalogues in Classics remain largely limited to individual texts, and – with some notable exceptions – offer little in terms of explicit theorising. The present volume is an attempt to close this gap and foster the dialogue between the recent theoretical re-appraisal of enumerative modes and scholarship on ancient cultures. The 16 contributions to the volume juxtapose literary forms of enumeration with an abundance of ancient non-, sub- or para-literary practices of listing and cataloguing. In their different approaches to this vast and heterogenous corpus, they offer a sense of the hermeneutic, epistemic and methodological challenges with which the study of enumeration is faced, and elucidate how pragmatics, materiality, performativity and aesthetics are mediated in lists and catalogues.

Download or read book The Laws of Human Nature written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The 48 Laws of Power comes the definitive new book on decoding the behavior of the people around you Robert Greene is a master guide for millions of readers, distilling ancient wisdom and philosophy into essential texts for seekers of power, understanding and mastery. Now he turns to the most important subject of all - understanding people's drives and motivations, even when they are unconscious of them themselves. We are social animals. Our very lives depend on our relationships with people. Knowing why people do what they do is the most important tool we can possess, without which our other talents can only take us so far. Drawing from the ideas and examples of Pericles, Queen Elizabeth I, Martin Luther King Jr, and many others, Greene teaches us how to detach ourselves from our own emotions and master self-control, how to develop the empathy that leads to insight, how to look behind people's masks, and how to resist conformity to develop your singular sense of purpose. Whether at work, in relationships, or in shaping the world around you, The Laws of Human Nature offers brilliant tactics for success, self-improvement, and self-defense.

Download or read book Spirituality for the Skeptic written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By examining the ideas of great thinkers from Kafka to Socrates, this text arrives at an alternative vision of spirituality, one that is non-dogmatic and practical, that should appeal to many seekers looking to make sense of the human condition.

Download or read book Algorithmic aspects of resource allocation and multiwinner voting theory and experiments written by Kaczmarczyk, Andrzej and published by Universitätsverlag der TU Berlin. This book was released on 2021-12-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis is concerned with investigating elements of computational social choice in the light of real-world applications. We contribute to a better understanding of the areas of fair allocation and multiwinner voting. For both areas, inspired by real-world scenarios, we propose several new notions and extensions of existing models. Then, we analyze the complexity of answering the computational questions raised by the introduced concepts. To this end, we look through the lens of parameterized complexity. We identify different parameters which describe natural features specific to the computational problems we investigate. Exploiting the parameters, we successfully develop efficient algorithms for spe- cific cases of the studied problems. We complement our analysis by showing which parameters presumably cannot be utilized for seeking efficient algorithms. Thereby, we provide comprehensive pictures of the computational complexity of the studied problems. Specifically, we concentrate on four topics that we present below, grouped by our two areas of interest. For all but one topic, we present experimental studies based on implementations of newly developed algorithms. We first focus on fair allocation of indivisible resources. In this setting, we consider a collection of indivisible resources and a group of agents. Each agent reports its utility evaluation of every resource and the task is to “fairly” allocate the resources such that each resource is allocated to at most one agent. We concentrate on the two following issues regarding this scenario. The social context in fair allocation of indivisible resources. In many fair allocation settings, it is unlikely that every agent knows all other agents. For example, consider a scenario where the agents represent employees of a large corporation. It is highly unlikely that every employee knows every other employee. Motivated by such settings, we come up with a new model of graph envy-freeness by adapting the classical envy-freeness notion to account for social relations of agents modeled as social networks. We show that if the given social network of agents is simple (for example, if it is a directed acyclic graph), then indeed we can sometimes find fair allocations efficiently. However, we contrast tractability results with showing NP-hardness for several cases, including those in which the given social network has a constant degree. Fair allocations among few agents with bounded rationality. Bounded rationality is the idea that humans, due to cognitive limitations, tend to simplify problems that they face. One of its emanations is that human agents usually tend to report simple utilities over the resources that they want to allocate; for example, agents may categorize the available resources only into two groups of desirable and undesirable ones. Applying techniques for solving integer linear programs, we show that exploiting bounded rationality leads to efficient algorithms for finding envy-free and Pareto-efficient allocations, assuming a small number of agents. Further, we demonstrate that our result actually forms a framework that can be applied to a number of different fairness concepts like envy-freeness up to one good or envy-freeness up to any good. This way, we obtain efficient algorithms for a number of fair allocation problems (assuming few agents with bounded rationality). We also empirically show that our technique is applicable in practice. Further, we study multiwinner voting, where we are given a collection of voters and their preferences over a set of candidates. The outcome of a multiwinner voting rule is a group (or a set of groups in case of ties) of candidates that reflect the voters’ preferences best according to some objective. In this context, we investigate the following themes. The robustness of election outcomes. We study how robust outcomes of multiwinner elections are against possible mistakes made by voters. Assuming that each voter casts a ballot in a form of a ranking of candidates, we represent a mistake by a swap of adjacent candidates in a ballot. We find that for rules such as SNTV, k-Approval, and k-Borda, it is computationally easy to find the minimum number of swaps resulting in a change of an outcome. This task is, however, NP-hard for STV and the Chamberlin-Courant rule. We conclude our study of robustness with experimentally studying the average number of random swaps leading to a change of an outcome for several rules. Strategic voting in multiwinner elections. We ask whether a given group of cooperating voters can manipulate an election outcome in a favorable way. We focus on the k-Approval voting rule and we show that the computational complexity of answering the posed question has a rich structure. We spot several cases for which our problem is polynomial-time solvable. However, we also identify NP-hard cases. For several of them, we show how to circumvent the hardness by fixed-parameter tractability. We also present experimental studies indicating that our algorithms are applicable in practice. Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Untersuchung von Themen des Forschungsgebiets Computational Social Choice im Lichte realer Anwendungen. Dabei trägt sie zu einem besseren Verständnis der Bereiche der fairen Zuordnung und der Mehrgewinnerwahlen bei. Für beide Konzepte schlagen wir – inspiriert von realen Anwendungen – verschiedene neue Begriffe und Erweiterungen bestehender Modelle vor. Anschließend analysieren wir die Komplexität der Beantwortung von Berechnungsfragen, die durch die eingeführten Konzepte aufgeworfen werden. Dabei fokussieren wir uns auf die parametrisierte Komplexität. Hierzu identifizieren wir verschiedene Parameter, welche natürliche Merkmale der von uns untersuchten Berechnungsprobleme beschreiben. Durch die Nutzung dieser Parameter entwickeln wir erfolgreich effiziente Algorithmen für Spezialfälle der untersuchten Probleme. Wir ergänzen unsere Analyse indem wir zeigen, welche Parameter vermutlich nicht verwendet werden können um effiziente Algorithmen zu finden. Dabei zeichnen wir ein umfassendes Bild der Berechnungskomplexität der untersuchten Probleme. Insbesondere konzentrieren wir uns auf vier Themen, die wir, gruppiert nach unseren beiden Schwerpunkten, unten vorstellen. Für alle Themen bis auf eines präsentieren wir Experimente, die auf Implementierungen der von uns neu entwickelten Algorithmen basieren. Wir konzentrieren uns zunächst auf die faire Zuordnung unteilbarer Ressourcen. Hier betrachten wir eine Menge unteilbarer Ressourcen und eine Gruppe von Agenten. Jeder Agent gibt eine Bewertung des Nutzens jeder Ressource ab und die Aufgabe besteht darin, eine "faire" Zuordnung der Ressourcen zu finden, wobei jede Ressource höchstens einem Agenten zugeordnet werden kann. Innerhalb dieses Bereiches konzentrieren wir uns auf die beiden folgenden Problemstellungen. Der soziale Kontext bei der fairen Zuordnung unteilbarer Ressourcen. In vielen Szenarien, in denen Ressourcen zugeordnet werden sollen, ist es unwahrscheinlich, dass jeder Agent alle anderen kennt. Vorstellbar ist beispielsweise ein Szenario, in dem die Agenten Mitarbeiter eines großen Unternehmens repräsentieren. Es ist höchst unwahrscheinlich, dass jeder Mitarbeiter jeden anderen Mitarbeiter kennt. Motiviert durch solche Szenarien entwickeln wir ein neues Modell der graph-basierten Neidfreiheit. Wir erweitern den klassischen Neidfreiheitsbegriff um die sozialen Beziehungen von Agenten, die durch soziale Netzwerke modelliert werden. Einerseits zeigen wir, dass wenn das soziale Netzwerk der Agenten einfach ist (zum Beispiel, wenn es sich um einen gerichteten azyklischen Graph handelt), in manchen Fällen faire Zuordnungen effizient gefunden werden können. Andererseits stellen wir diesen algorithmisch positiven Ergebnissen mehrere NP-schweren Fällen entgegen. Ein Beispiel für einen solchen Fall sind soziale Netzwerke mit einem konstanten Knotengrad. Faire Zuteilung an wenige Agenten mit begrenzter Rationalität. Begrenzte Rationalität beschreibt die Idee, dass Menschen aufgrund kognitiver Grenzen dazu neigen, Probleme, mit denen sie konfrontiert werden, zu vereinfachen. Eine mögliche Folge dieser Grenzen ist, dass menschliche Agenten in der Regel einfache Bewertungen der gewünschten Ressourcen abgeben; beispielsweise könnten Agenten die verfügbaren Ressourcen nur in zwei Gruppen, erwünschte und unerwünschte Ressourcen, kategorisieren. Durch Anwendung von Techniken zum Lösen von Ganzzahligen Linearen Programmen zeigen wir, dass unter der Annahme einer kleinen Anzahl von Agenten die Ausnutzung begrenzter Rationalität dabei hilft, effiziente Algorithmen zum Finden neidfreier und Pareto-effizienter Zuweisungen zu entwickeln. Weiterhin zeigen wir, dass unser Ergebnis ein allgemeines Verfahren liefert, welches auf eine Reihe verschiedener Fairnesskonzepte angewendet werden kann, wie zum Beispiel Neidfreiheit bis auf ein Gut oder Neidfreiheit bis auf irgendein Gut. Auf diese Weise gewinnen wir effiziente Algorithmen für eine Reihe fairer Zuordnungsprobleme (wenige Agenten mit begrenzter Rationalität vorausgesetzt). Darüber hinaus zeigen wir empirisch, dass unsere Technik in der Praxis anwendbar ist. Weiterhin untersuchen wir Mehrgewinnerwahlen, bei denen uns eine Menge von Wählern sowie ihre Präferenzen über eine Reihe von Kandidaten gegeben sind. Das Ergebnis eines Mehrgewinnerwahlverfahrens ist eine Gruppe (oder eine Menge von Gruppen im Falle eines Unentschiedens) von Kandidaten, welche die Präferenzen der Wähler am besten einem bestimmten Ziel folgend widerspiegeln. In diesem Kontext untersuchen wir die folgenden Themen. Die Robustheit von Wahlergebnissen. Wir untersuchen, wie robust die Ergebnisse von Mehrgewinnerwahlen gegenüber möglicher Fehler der Wähler sind. Unter der Annahme, dass jeder Wähler eine Stimme in Form einer Rangliste von Kandidaten abgibt, modellieren wir einen Fehler als einen Tausch benachbarter Kandidaten in der Rangliste. Wir zeigen, dass für Wahlregeln wie SNTV, k-Approval und k-Borda die minimale Anzahl an Vertauschungen, welche zu einer Ergebnisänderung führt, einfach zu berechnen ist. Für STV und die Chamberlin-Courant-Regel ist diese Aufgabe allerdings NP-schwer. Wir schließen unsere Untersuchung der Robustheit unterschiedlicher Wahlregeln ab mit einer experimentellen Evaluierung der durchschnittlichen Anzahl zufälliger Vertauschungen, die zu einer Änderung des Ergebnisses führen. Strategische Abstimmung bei Wahlen mit mehreren Gewinnern. Wir fragen, ob eine bestimmte Gruppe von kooperierenden Wählern ein Wahlergebnis zu ihren Gunsten manipulieren kann. Dabei konzentrieren wir uns auf die k-Approval-Wahlregel. Wir zeigen, dass die Berechnungskomplexität der besagten Manipulation eine reiche Struktur besitzt. Auf der einen Seite identifizieren wir mehrere Fälle in denen das Problem in Polynomzeit lösbar ist. Auf der anderen Seite identifizieren wir jedoch auch NP-schwere Fälle. Für einige von ihnen zeigen wir, wie die Berechnungsschwere durch parametrisierte Algorithmen umgangen werden kann. Wir präsentieren zudem experimentelle Untersuchungen, welche darauf hindeuten, dass unsere Algorithmen in der Praxis anwendbar sind.

Download or read book Hugs Daily Inspirations Words of Promise written by Freeman-Smith LLC and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-12-04 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by the best-selling Hugs series, this book contains 365 devotionals to fill everyday with promises of hope and renewal. With beautiful full-color pictures of soothing scenes to complement the encouraging words, these devotionals are the perfect way to start the day.

Download or read book Grace for Each Day written by Worthy Inspired and published by Worthy Inspired. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 spirit-lifting devotions that celebrate the gift of life and the gift of grace: highly readable; elegantly designed; addresses concerns of today's readers; makes a perfect gift.

Download or read book Shakespeare in Hate written by Peter Kishore Saval and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hate, malice, rage, and enmity: what would Shakespeare’s plays be without these demonic, unruly passions? This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare’s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of our selfhood. Everyone knows Shakespeare to be the exemplary poet of love, but how many celebrate his clarifying expressions of hatred? How many of us do not at some time feel that we have come away from his plays transformed by hate and washed clean by savage indignation? Saval fills the great gap in the interpretation of Shakespeare’s unsocial feelings. The book asserts that emotions, as Aristotle claims in the Rhetoric, are connected to judgments. Under such a view, hatred and rage in Shakespeare cease to be a "blinding" of judgment or a loss of reason, but become claims upon the world that can be evaluated and interpreted. The literary criticism of anger and hate provides an alternative vision of the experience of Shakespeare’s theater as an intensification of human experience that takes us far beyond criticism’s traditional contexts of character, culture, and ethics. The volume, which is alive to the judgmental character of emotions, transforms the way we see the rancorous passions and the disorderly and disobedient demands of anger and hatred. Above all, it reminds us why Shakespeare is the exemplary creator of that rare yet pleasurable thing: a good hater.

Download or read book Hugs Daily Inspirations for Grandmas written by Howard Books and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspirational hugs of appreciation for the love that grandmothers share -- every day of the year.

Download or read book Alchemies of the Mind written by Jon Elster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive book on the emotions considering the full range of theoretical approaches.

Download or read book 100 Days of Peace written by Stephen Arterburn and published by Rose Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace can be scarce in these turbulent times. How can you find the genuine peace that Jesus promises us? This daily devotional by beloved author Stephen Arterburn will help you do just that. Each day’s reading encourages you to spend a few minutes thinking about ways that you and God, working together, can overcome your challenges, organize your life, focus your thoughts, and follow the path that your heavenly Father intends for you to take. Packed with topics from growing in faith to trusting in the Lord, each of the 100 devotions provides a short reflection, a key Bible verse, an inspiring quote, and a prayer that will root your trust in God’s Word. This devotional includes:Daily devotions on 100 topics that encourage finding peace in God’s careThought-provoking quotesPowerful prayers inspired by Scripture5-minute devotions with further study optionsIn the 100 Days of Peace daily devotional, readers will be renewed with a deeper sense of confidence as they are led to experience the powerful, transforming effect God’s love has on life.

Download or read book Salvation Act I Prophecies written by Daryl Jenkinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The realm of He'aeven has always been influenced by prophecies, but when one speaks of the end of everything, it will be a race against time to interpret what is written, and to save the multiverse. When Ezekiel, an Erelim angel of light, finds out that he may be a part of the prophecy, his whole life is thrown into chaos. But before he can answer the questions of his fate, he is thrust into the middle of an ancient war, one that he never wanted to be a part of. On the run, he will try to find the truth. Meanwhile, seven Archangels, legends and survivors of their own prophecy, are trying to save their world, and a universe in peril while an army of demons move against them. Including, Envy, a member of the elite group of demons known as the Seven Deadly Sins. He enacts his own plans, to interpret the prophecy and change his own fate. They will fight to avoid, fix, or change their destinies. But can prophecy be changed? Or are their fates written in stone? Also available as a digital Ebook

Download or read book A Light in Dark Places written by Daniel Sykes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-02-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My coming novel will be the story behind my poetry that will tie in with my work and back up my poetic considerations with classic prose. I have watched as each poem was worded in a manner of beautiful description to the words I love to hear and was composed to the narrative and to the image of wonder and enchantment in the dress sense of beautiful fable lines and imagination. Our whole world is reflective of the dark side, and the moonlight contrasts to the days end and the going down of the sun. Lucent travels are enlightened journeys, whether in darkness or by the light of the rising sunlit dawn and morning wake. And the dreams conscious of binding and reflective thought carry on in our daily lives through the passages that are arrived at and for the light that they are seen. Stars are held in awe of distance and time and are watched as they navigate the universe for which they are known in the space that they have always been seen to highlight and mark our travels in the light and depth of our destinations that only our imagination can concur to the challenge of understanding and distinction. We awake from sleep to the clarity of light, and hopefully, the guarded truth that follows our turbulent lives in hindsight to the character bestowed in our darkest thoughts and the things that bring them to light that may raise us from the pit of demons that carry chains to hold us hostage to their disparaging afterlife, that is fired by hatred, jealousy, and envy of the time that we have left and for their own fateful eternities for which there is no return, but for the devil that drives the enormities of fact for our own judgment.

Download or read book Liberty Wisdom and Grace written by John Hittinger and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century French philosophers Jacques Maritain and Yves R. Simon pioneered new approaches to understanding and defending political democracy in the wake of two world wars. Rather than break from a religious tradition that seemed to struggle against modernity and certain forms of democratic theory and practice, these thinkers instead looked back to the philosophy of Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas to propel Catholic political philosophy forward. The profound influence of Maritain and Simon is manifest in the dramatic achievements of Vatican II and in the work of the scholars of political philosophy who learned from them. John P. Hittinger, one of the finest of these scholars, provides in Liberty, Wisdom, and Grace a comprehensive survey of the Thomists' contributions to contemporary political thought as well as a detailed analysis of their approach to democracy. Hittinger treats criticism of Maritain, including the work of Catholic political writer Aurel Kolnai, and discusses the alternative democratic visions of John Locke and David Richards. His portraits of thinkers who have wrestled with democracy in the Thomist tradition, such as Leo Strauss and John Paul II, are sensitive and engaging. Addressing questions of religion and philosophy broadly understood, the essays collected here offer a searching examination of democratic theory in the modern age.